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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not just smart phones and social media. A lot of these losses are happening among elementary age kids who don't have access to either. But the reliance on Ed Tech to teach math and reading is a big problem. Blaming screens at home doesn't make sense because kids have been watching screens at home for decades, that's not something that started in 2015.

What shifted for kids is they went from mostly using books, paper, and pencil in the classroom to using 1:1 devices and ed tech software. That's true for kids who were get zero screen time at home, and it's true for kids who get hours of screen time at home every day.

Go back to physical books, handwriting, and working out math problems with pencil and paper. Studies show that children retain information better and longer when they learn it from physical media instead of digitally.[/quote]

Couldn't agree with you more. My child gets maybe one 30 minute show every week and that's it for screen time at home. But at school they have 1-to-1 iPads all day, and in all classes except PE. Child was taught to guess rather than read phonetically at school. Was also taught how to drag boxes across different learning apps, and how to click buttons to take state/natl tests on the iPad. Child is only in 2nd and so far at home we have had to independently teach phonics/ blends, addition/subtraction/multiplication/division, grammar, spelling, and geometrical shapes and area. We have literally had to emphasize practice with pencil and paper at home, because child did not know how to line up numbers to do sums or how to write neatly on the page. Not because of dysgraphia or dyslexia, but because they do it all on screens at school. I have no idea how we are going to supplement science and history. I feel English and Math already take up all of our time. We are planning to supplement with a drawing class over the summer since they just play with the Brushes app on the iPad during art at school.[/quote]

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